/*
 * Copyright 2007 ZXing authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.zxing;

/**
 * The general exception class throw when something goes wrong during decoding
 * of a barcode. This includes, but is not limited to, failing checksums / error
 * correction algorithms, being unable to locate finder timing patterns, and so
 * on.
 * 
 * @author Sean Owen
 */
public abstract class ReaderException extends Exception {

	/**
	 * 
	 */
	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

	ReaderException() {
		// do nothing
	}

	// Prevent stack traces from being taken
	// srowen says: huh, my IDE is saying this is not an override. native
	// methods can't be overridden?
	// This, at least, does not hurt. Because we use a singleton pattern here,
	// it doesn't matter anyhow.
	@Override
	public final Throwable fillInStackTrace() {
		return null;
	}

}
